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손아람｜작가 무인도로 납치당한 사회의 낙오자들이 게임에 참가한다. 승자 한명은 거액의 상금을 얻고 나머지 패자들은 목숨을 잃는다. 규칙은 세가지다. 첫째, 참가자는 임의로 게임을 중단할 수 없다. 둘째, 게임을 거부하는 참가자는 탈락으로 처리한다. 셋째, 참가자의 과반수가 동의할 경우 게임을 중단할 수 있다. 넷플릭스 드라마 속 설정이다.게임의 주최측은 끊임없이 공정을 강조하며, 게임의 공정을 해치는 행동을 용납하지 않는 태도를 보인다. 하지만 이 게임이 불공정하다는 사실을 누구나 안다. 참가자는 볼이 새빨갛게 달아오를 때까지 따귀를 맞지만, 주최자는 돈을 지불할 뿐이다. 참가자들은 단 한번의 실수로도 죽임을 당하지만, 주최자는 좀 더 많은 돈을 지불할 뿐이다. 이따위 불공정한 게임이 어떻게 가능할까? ..

甛蜜蜜/Article, Film 2021. 10. 16. 18:15

My grandfather, Bunny Meyer, ran a Chicago tannery called Gutmann Leather. When I was a child, it was a source of both terror and pride. The tannery was full of frightening, evil-smelling machines and chemicals. It had also been in the family since 1885. Bunny took pride in providing high-quality leather and high-paying, stable employment. My father and his siblings were proud, too, but when he ..

甛蜜蜜/Article, Film 2021. 9. 19. 19:13

Author Rafia Zakaria states her agenda for Against White Feminism in a book trailer released by Al Jazeera's AJPlus brand: "putting the fangs back in feminism is a very urgent project." She then reminds us that mainstream Western feminism is, and always has been, for white women and girls — and that this how it's been embedded in popular and news media, our consumerist economy, wars, political d..

甛蜜蜜/Article, Film 2021. 8. 29. 19:46

Not many writers can convey both great beauty and horror at the same time, but in Savage Tongues, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi does so deftly. The novel follows Arezu, a woman in her late thirties, as she travels to Marbella, Spain, where she spent the summer when she was seventeen. She has returned to confront the past, the ghost of who she was, and her memories of Omar, an enigmatic older man ..

甛蜜蜜/Article, Film 2021. 8. 29. 19:01

“Minor Feelings” and the Possibilities of Asian-American Identity Cathy Park Hong’s book of essays bled a dormant discomfort out of me with surgical precision. By Jia Tolentino March 6, 2020 Illustration by Ka Young Lee Early in the formidable new essay collection “Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning,” the poet Cathy Park Hong delivers a fatalistic state-of-the-race survey. “In the popul..

甛蜜蜜/Article, Film 2021. 7. 27. 05:23

Anne Carson was uncomfortable with the idea of a traditional profile: a journalist following her around for a few days, like a private detective, noting her outfits and mannerisms, shadowing her on errands, making lists of furniture and wall decorations and pets, quizzing her students, standing behind her holding his breath while she tried to write in her journal. Carson is a private person. She..

甛蜜蜜/Article, Film 2021. 3. 18. 23:29

Nicole Ferroni vient de se rendre compte que c'était à elle. Elle a jeté son stylo, Nicole. Vous êtes soulagée ? Oui, tout à fait, je suis soulagée ce matin, qu'on soit face à la fine équipe des « Enfants du Canal », cette association qui accompagne les personnes sans domicile fixe, pour parler du mal-logement, parce que je me disais "Ah voilà enfin je vais pouvoir dire des choses gentilles, me ..

甛蜜蜜/Article, Film 2020. 12. 31. 02:30

The most convincing literary pessimists are superior stylists. They smooth their nihilistic impulses into pleasing shapes. Despair is largely inimical to art, while melancholy—its pensive, perfumed cousin—makes of the void something paradoxically seductive. I think of Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I with its horizon of bats and comets, its alchemical implements and carpenter’s tools laid in disarr..

甛蜜蜜/Article, Film 2020. 12. 30. 07:02